The plan, called the Central Utah Project, involves several pipelines through the state, including the Utah Lake System, which brings water from Spanish Fork Canyon into north and south Utah County, he said.

The water enters the state in the Uinta Mountains north of Duchesne, makes it way to the Strawberry Reservoir, then passes through the Syar Tunnel, down through huge pipes in Diamond Fork Canyon, then through Spanish Fork Canyon, where it splits.

Over the past decade work has been done to rehabilitate the Bonneville cutthroat habitat in Spanish Fork Canyon, and next beginning next year Bonnevilles will be stocked in streams where they lived historically in American Fork Canyon, he said.